table.
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Linda pointed at me and said Ethan had been trying to do the right thing by his family.
I told her the right thing would have been asking.
Ezoic
I watched Ethan’s face settle into anger rather than regret, and that told me everything I needed to understand about where we actually stood. He was not disappointed in himself. He was frustrated that the plan had not worked.
That reaction brought me back to something from two weeks earlier. I had walked into his home office and noticed him quickly minimizing a spreadsheet on his screen. He had laughed it off, said he was helping Ryan get organized. That same evening he had been unusually attentive, asking careful questions about the sale timeline, the estimated taxes, how long a wire transfer typically takes. I had pushed the unease aside because I wanted to believe there was still something
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